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Doing More with Less: Lessons from Cuba's Health Care System

High U.S. health care costs do not yield corresponding health outcomes for its citizens. But Cuba, for less than a tenth of U.S. costs, has attained comparable outcomes on many indicators, such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Cuba prioritizes primary care and prevention and addresses social determinants of health.

Oct 6, 2017
Report

Report

Using Ambulance Data for Violence Prevention: Technical Report

This study is a 'proof of concept' evaluation of the utility of using ambulance data for violence prevention activities, in partnership with the West Midlands Police and the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Sep 28, 2017
Report

Community Citizen Science Could Transform Science and Society

Community citizen science involves public participation in research to support interventional activities or policy change. There is disagreement over current standards of practice, but if successful, citizen science could improve communities, science, and decisionmaking.

Sep 27, 2017
Tool

Tool

Roadmap to Succeed in the Open for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Human Development Directorate

This tool provides the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Human Development Directorate with a roadmap for how employees can overcome the hurdles to achieving the agency's missions outside of secure and classified environments.

Sep 26, 2017
Report

Landscape Survey to Support Flood Apex National Flood Decision Support Toolbox: Definitions and Existing Tools

This report summarizes the literature on resilience to flood risk, its analysis and measurement, and examples. It also catalogs decision support tools for flood mitigation and makes recommendations for further investigation of the tools.

Sep 7, 2017
Report

Fostering Innovation in U.S. Law Enforcement

What are the most pressing technology, policy, and practice needs for law enforcement? And how should these needs be prioritized?

Aug 31, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Community Partners in Care: 6-Month Outcomes of Two Quality Improvement Depression Care Interventions in Male Participants

Our study suggests that minority men, similarly to the overall CPIC sample of men and women, benefited from the CEP approach relative to the RS approach.

Aug 29, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Community-Partnered, Participatory, Cluster-Randomized Study of Depression Care Quality Improvement: Three-Year Outcomes

A community coalition approach to depression care quality improvement may lead to better physical health-related quality of life and fewer behavioral health hospitalization nights.

Aug 23, 2017
Tool

Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of community emergency preparedness programs. It includes instructions, completed examples, and blank tools.

Aug 21, 2017
Report

Guide to the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model

This guide provides an overview of and guidance on the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a framework designed to help policymakers and practitioners estimate the resilience dividend from projects they are considering or have implemented.

Aug 1, 2017
Report

Resilience Dividend Valuation Model: Framework Development and Initial Case Studies

This report describes the development of the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a complementary framework designed to help communities estimate the resilience dividend from resilience projects or investment.

Aug 1, 2017
Commentary

Anti-Drug Education: Time for a New Bumper Sticker

Effective drug prevention in America could start by helping school districts adopt programs that work. These evidence-based programs can teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs, and they won't break the bank.

Jul 20, 2017
Journal Article

Challenges Of Measuring Quality Of Community-Based Programs For Seriously Ill Individuals And Their Families

Quality measures and payment approaches for community-based programs serving seriously ill patients should incorporate core components such as communication, shared decision making, and advance care planning.

Jul 19, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Promoting Physical Activity in High-Poverty Neighborhood Parks: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Modest efforts, such as free classes, to increase physical activity in high-poverty area parks attracted visitors during special programming but were not sufficient to increase overall park use.

Jul 18, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Predicting Evidence-Based Treatment Sustainment: Results from a Longitudinal Study of the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach

Providers' ability to sustain A-CRA programming beyond initial implementation support depended on factors such as the level of implementation success, staff perceptions toward the intervention, funding stability, and community support.

Jul 18, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Using Stakeholder Input to Inform an Innovative Research and Policy Initiative to Improve Depression in Safety Net Communities

An exercise to prioritize the needs of depressed individuals in LA County identified stable and affordable housing as the number one priority.

Jul 13, 2017
Project

Advancing Community Hospitals and Services in England

Community hospitals could be better integrated into the NHS England healthcare system to offer an effective and efficient alternative to acute hospitals and to provide health and social care closer to people’s homes. However, there is limited evidence on the cost effectiveness of community hospitals.

Jul 11, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Police Legitimacy and Disrupting Overt Drug Markets

The study investigates mechanisms thought to support immediate and sustained change after a DMI by analyzing qualitative data collected in community focus groups conducted at three-, six-, and 15-months following a DMI across three different sites.

Jun 30, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

An Examination of Measures Related to Children's Exposure to Violence for Use by Both Practitioners and Researchers

This review of measures to screen, assess, and track outcomes for exposure to violence among children identifies gaps in available measures and recommends establishing a centralized item bank accessible to researchers and practitioners.

Jun 9, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

A School-Based Public Health Model to Reduce Oral Health Disparities

Broad-based school-community partnerships can help address the unmet oral health needs of low-income children.

Jun 8, 2017

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Communities

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Organized Society

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